Black History Month is honored by many athletes and teams across the sports world. Someone in the Philadelphia Eagles’ marketing department decided to give Riley Cooper the honor of representing the team during February.
Coincidence or nah?
In case you forgot Cooper made national headlines a few years ago when he called a man a ni**er during an argument at a concert. Cooper has since apologized and it faded from memory… Until now.
The Eagles told TMZ that it was a coincidence and no deep thought had been given to the selection of Cooper for Black History Month, but a sneaky joke like this shouldn’t go unclaimed.
“If anything, it was an honest mistake,” Eagles PR rep Brett Strohsacker tells TMZ Sports.
“It never crossed our minds. I will look into this issue and see what the thought process was.”
Whoever did this in the marketing department is somewhere in their cubical right now with a huge smile on their face. We applaud them.